Learn the English Phrases "on the fast track" and "fast-forward"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

on the fast track.

Now, there's two ways to learn English.

You can study at home on your own time

or if you wanna be on the fast track,

you can move to an English speaking country

and live with an English speaking family,

then you would definitely be on the fast track.

So, this phrase then means to take a route that's faster.

Sometimes someone starts working at a company

and they do a really good job, and they work extra hours,

and they just really want to get a promotion,

you would say that they are on the fast track

if they manage to do that.

They impress their boss by working long days,

doing things successfully

and just making the company better.

You would say, "Oh, they're on the fast track

to getting a promotion."

So, anytime you're on the fast track,

it means you're going faster than other people.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase fast-forward.

Now, this is a button that you use to speed up a video

but we also use this when we talk about our lives.

I could say this, five and a half years ago,

I only had a few subscribers, but fast forward a few years

and I had a hundred thousand subscribers.

Fast forward again and a few years later,

I had over a million.

This is on my other channel, by the way not this channel,

this channel is cool and small and that's the way I like it.

So, you can use the word fast-forward

to talk about events in your life as well.

So to review, when you're on the fast track,

it means you are progressing in a faster way

than other people at something

like learning English or getting a promotion at work.

And when you use the phrase fast-forward,

you can use this to talk about different parts of your life.

When I was a kid, I didn't like pumpkin pie

but fast forward a few years

and it became one of my favorite kinds of pie.

So you can just use the phrase

to talk about an advancement in time.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video,

this comment is from Giovanni.

"Yeah, I'm pulling for Canada this year,

since I was born, Canada hasn't been qualified

and this year you guys did.

Sure thing, I'm stuck to the sofa this afternoon

to watch the match,

and then I'm responding a little while later

saying I was sad when we lost to Belgium yesterday,

oh well, c'est la vie."

So, thanks Giovanni for that.

Yes, the World Cup is happening.

Yes, I did actually watch a little bit of it yesterday.

We watched it at school.

So, we were able to get the match on the screen.

We watched a little bit of the match

between Canada and Belgium

and we were sad when they scored a point on us

and then we were sad at the end of the game when we lost.

But hey, it's nice that,

I think they're in Round Robin play right now,

where you play a number of teams in your pool.

So, hopefully when Canada plays its next game,

we can have a little more success.

So anyways, I don't have a lot more to talk about today

but I will just reflect on my week.

My week so far has been really busy,

but as of today, I don't have as much to do.

But the funny thing is, when I'm busy, I get more work done

and when I don't have a lot to do, I get less done.

I sat and talked to Jen this morning for half an hour

instead of getting this video done right away.

I kind of moseyed outside.

In English when you say that you mosey somewhere,

it means you go there really, really slowly.

For some reason,

on days where I have a million things to do,

I get up, I get at it, I start early,

I get as many things done as possible,

as quickly as possible.

But on a day like this,

when there's only about four or five things

on my to-do list,

for some reason I don't get as much done

and I don't get it done as quickly.

So anyways, that's the way it goes sometimes.

Hope you're having a good day,

it's super bright and sunny out here, that's for sure.

I'll see you in a couple days with another English lesson.

Bye.